<p>Veteran news anchor Katie Couric outed former colleague Bryant Gumbel as &#8220;incredibly sexist,&#8221; claiming that he suggested she should deliver her baby &#8220;in a field&#8221; and come straight back to the show rather than taking some time off for maternity leave.</p>
<p>Couric made the comments during her recent appearance on comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, where she also said that Gumbel&#8217;s attitude was similar to that of many of her male colleagues and the overall culture at NBC at the time.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Katie Couric on Club Random with Bill Maher revealed a couple of interesting facts about her time working on the &#39;Today Show&#39; with Bryant Gumbel and Matt Lauer:<br />Couric: &quot;He [Gumbel] got mad at me because I was doing something on maternity leave, and he was giving endless shit for… <a href="https://t.co/9KjrtZSbGY">pic.twitter.com/9KjrtZSbGY</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;He was prickly, but, what a talent. He’s such a seamless broadcaster, eloquent. I mean, when that countdown would happen — five, four, three, two, one — he would just hit it perfect,&#8221; Couric said of Gumbel.</p>
<p>And while she did have a number of nice things to say about him — she called him a &#8220;natty dresser&#8221; and noted that he was intelligent and &#8220;really talented&#8221; — her overall assessment was that he was &#8220;complicated.&#8221;</p>
<p>She went on to say that things kind of came to a head when she planned to take maternity leave when her first child was born.</p>
<p>&#8220;And he was giving me endless s*** for taking like a month or two off. I was having my first baby,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He was like, ‘Why don’t you just drop it in the field and come back to work right away or something?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Maher, who is friends with Gumbel, pressed Couric on that point and said that it sounded like he probably meant that last remark as a joke — and while Couric conceded that he&#8217;d been &#8220;kidding,&#8221; she said that wasn&#8217;t the only thing he had said on the matter.</p>
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<p>&#8220;He was goofing on me but giving me a lot of s***. But it was emblematic of sort of an incredibly sexist attitude,&#8221; she continued.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was a very different environment,&#8221; she said of NBC at the time.</p>
<p>Maher noted that there was an &#8220;old boys club&#8221; feel to the interoffice politics at major networks at the time, adding, &#8220;And women had to put up with more. They just did. I mean, you know, not to get all fuzzy and Lifetime Channel about it, but people like you and Barbara Walters or just like women comedians of a certain age, you have to really tip your hat to them because it was harder.&#8221;</p>

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